STIFLE
stifle
Noun
Verb
- To interrupt or cut off.
- To repress, keep in or hold back.
- To smother or suffocate.
- To feel smothered etc.
- To die of suffocation.
- To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.
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